The phrase "as first remark" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an attempt to introduce an initial comment or observation, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "As a first remark, I would like to highlight the importance of teamwork in our project."
Alternatives: "To begin with" or "As an initial comment."
While these constructions, and the associated graph reductions bear striking similarity with lambda calculus with explicit substitutions, as first remarked by Di Cosmo & Kesner (1997), they are too similar to the corresponding sequent calculus rules: the parallelization effect so elegant for MLL does not properly carry on here, and the graph reduction rules involve boxes and are not local.
Her first remark, uttered as a kind of informed hunch: "I bet the Chinese food in this town is terrible". It's even easier when Vinny, a New York lawyer who passed his bar examination six weeks earlier (after six tries), starts to prepare his case, which is to defend his nephew and his nephew's pal, who have been charged with a capital offense.
In his first remarks as president-designate he was brimming with both confidence and toughness.
In his first remarks as the designated secretary of state, retired Gen. Colin L. Powell spoke on Saturday with force and eloquence.
I am delighted to have this opportunity to pen my first remarks as director, having joined ICSI just a handful of weeks ago.
"We all recognize that there's a steep hill ahead of us," Mr. Priebus said, delivering his first remarks as party chairman.
And third, she has delivered one of the most arrestingly inclusive speeches about her domestic priorities – echoed in her first remarks as prime minister on Wednesday – to come from the lips of any Conservative leader for years.
In his first remarks as leader, he praised the protests that preceded Morsi's removal and said they had "corrected the path of the glorious revolution" that brought down the former dictator Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.
A21 In his first remarks as the designated secretary of state, General Powell spoke with force and eloquence, but made few binding commitments on foreign policy, promising study and consultation.
In his first remarks as Bishop, Bishop Pelotte spoke of his determination to apply the lesson of poverty and struggle that he had learned as a young boy in Maine to his new life in the Southwest, home of some of the poorest of his church's members.
11 44 a.m.: This article has been updated with Theresa May's first remarks as prime minister.
